The End-of-Summer Rock Playlist, by Alberta Cross

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Alberta Cross is a band we have long admired for refusing to compromise. When they were first coming up out of Brooklyn a couple years back, they looked like their contemporaries Fleet Foxes but were not afraid to play the electric guitar. When they were jammed up in the middle of the afternoon at huge festivals for a couple years after that, they never took themselves seriously at all. When they recorded their second record and they didn't like it, well, they threw it out. And so when the sophomore album finally came out this summer, Songs of Patience was just that — worth waiting for, and worth listening to before the season's through. So are the songs below, which the fellas put together for the first in a series of Guest DJ of the Week playlists here on The Culture Blog. Queue it up below from Esquire Spotify and stay tuned for more....